Playing Pipes
Showing the everyday impacts of climate causes on identifiable individuals, especially children, is likely to resonate and produce strong negative emotional responses in viewers.
Laif
Rights Managed
WHAT IT SHOWS: Ecuador, 2012 - Mother and child do their laundry at the river, a pipeline bridge crossing it in the background. Leaks and dumping of contaminated water from oil fields is believed to be the main cause of a rise in skin deseases and cancer among the locals.
Photo by
Massimiliano Clausi/laif
Principles:
Climate change impacts are emotionally powerful
Show 'real people', not staged photo-ops